It doesn't. I just make a suggestion and create - for anyone who has
Christmas (or Gravmass) time to share - a talk.

openSUSE is not the only distribution that offers its users proprietary
non-OSS software via 3rd party mirrors/repositories.
Fedora/Ubuntu/CentOS are a few examples.

Yes, indeed this is true. openSUSE is not the only one that offers
proprietary non-OSS software via 3rd party mirrors/repositories. Also is
the one of two biggest players in GNU/Linux distribution market that
have community projects with history back to the cataclysm and the very
very strongest distributions in the FLOSS world, SUSE and Redhat.

Although Novell is to blame for a lot of things through computer
history, SUSE (SLED) still exists under the new holders and in my
personal opinion is the best enterprise GNU/Linux distribution. It is a
hybrid of Free and Proprietary Software and is efficient, stable and
good to use. So anyone can download the evaluation edition or buy it for
$120 and use it. A computer user that do not cares for freedom, ethics
and politics and about updating all the time the system but wants
efficiency and stability would find the evaluation edition OK as well.

But, why having openSUSE as another hybrid of Free and Proprietary
Software when we have already one and this is affordable even in these
difficult financial times we live in?

If a user wants a free as in free beer GNU/Linux distribution that's
easy to use and runs all the hardware she can have SLED as well. So, I
think that openSUSE project is struggling to create something that
already exists.

But as you already know the meaning of Free Software doesn't refer to
price but to freedom.We can also sell (as we do) at
http://shop.opensuse.org our Free Software product. Attachmate could
also offer a package with both SLED & openSUSE for people who want to
try both the hybrid and the free software version.

The most hot topic now for everyday computer use are not screens,
mouses, keyboards, touchpads, winmodems (obsolete) or sound devices. Are
wi-fi, infrared 3d graphics and bluetooth drivers, cameras, usb sticks.
I could be a developer my self and stop the blah blah and write some
code, so blame also me, but what in the world if already existing
developers prefer to inject proprietary source code inside GNU/Linux
instead of writing new? Of course we can't beat the vendors and computer
devices industry speed but this is hacking is all about. Creating new
pathways in order everybody can use computers and share the human knowledge.

P.S. I support both FSF and LF and I'm not dogmatic.
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